It was always my understanding that Sauk Centre felt ill of him at first, but got over it once he'd garnered world-wide celebration.
"in America most of us — not readers alone, but even writers — are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues," and that America is "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today."
